CAiRE\_HKUST at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Hierarchical Attention for Dialogue Emotion Classification

SEMEVAL 2019 · Genta Indra Winata, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Jamin Shin, Yan Xu, Peng Xu, Pascale Fung ·

Detecting emotion from dialogue is a challenge that has not yet been extensively surveyed. One could consider the emotion of each dialogue turn to be independent, but in this paper, we introduce a hierarchical approach to classify emotion, hypothesizing that the current emotional state depends on previous latent emotions. We benchmark several feature-based classifiers using pre-trained word and emotion embeddings, state-of-the-art end-to-end neural network models, and Gaussian processes for automatic hyper-parameter search. In our experiments, hierarchical architectures consistently give significant improvements, and our best model achieves a 76.77{\%} F1-score on the test set.

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